A Federal Superior Court in the State of Lagos has sentenced and sentenced seven Chinese nationals to one year in prison for their roles in cyber -terrorism and Internet fraud related to an important scheme of Ponzi discovered in December 2024.
The convicts; Peng Li Huan, Zhang Jin Rong, He Kun, Rachelle Cabalona, ​​Caselyn Pionela, Guo Long and Zhang Hua Zhai, were arrested by agents of the Commission of Economic and Financial Crimes, EFCC, during a raid on a property located on Oyin Jolayemi street, Lagos.
The operation led to the apprehension of more than 700 suspects in what the authorities described as one of the repressions of larger cyber crimes in recent years.
They were processed separately before the Judges Ayokunle Faji, Chukwujkwu Aneke and Yellim Bogoro for modified charges of an account related to cybercrrorism and internet fraud.
According to Zonal 1 of Lagos of the EFCC, the Prosecutor's Office, led by Bilkisu Buhari-Bala, Chineye Okezie and Banjo Theitop, told the court that the defendants had opted for the agreements of guilt offers. These agreements were formally submitted on June 20, 2025.
The seven defendants declared themselves guilty and confirmed that they voluntarily entered the guilt offers.
By accepting its supplications, the Court sentenced the seven Chinese to a year in prison and imposed a monetary fine of N1 million to each of them.
The Court also ordered the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service to facilitate the deportation of convicts to their respective countries within seven days after the completion of their sentences.
The amended position alleged that the defendants, in December 2024, accessed the flavor of computer systems with the intention of undermining Nigeria's economic and social stability by recruiting local young people to participate in the theft of identity and the impersonation of foreign citizens to obtain illicit financial profits.
Their actions contravene section 18 of the Law of Cyber ​​crimes (prohibition, prevention, etc.), 2015 (amended in 2024), and section 2 (3) (d) of the Terrorism Law (prevention and prohibition), 2022.